Bernard Jacqueline (18 March 1918 – 26 February 2007) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the

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and served as Nuncio to Burundi and Morocco.

Biography

Bernard Henri René Jacqueline was born on 18 March 1918 in

Saint-Lô Saint-Lô (, ; ) is a Communes of France, commune in northwest France, the capital of the Manche department in the region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy.Diocese of Coutances In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated ...

on 12 March 1944 in Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. He fulfilled parish assignments in Mont-Saint-Michel (1944), Mortain (1945), and Tourlaville (1946). He then taught philosophy at the Saint-Paul Institute in

Cherbourg Cherbourg is a former Communes of France, commune and Subprefectures in France, subprefecture located at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French departments of France, department of Manche. It was merged into the com ...

while serving the parish of Gonneville from 1947 to 1951. He obtained his doctorate in canon law at the

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. He moved to Rome and served as chaplain of the Lycée Chateaubriand, chaplain of

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parish, and rector of the Saint-Pierre-Fourier chapel from 1951 to 1961. He then worked in the

at the

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(CPF) from 1961 to 1973 and then became Under-Secretary of the

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. In 1964, during the

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, while responsible for the Far East at the CPF, he gave

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a very negative assessment of the Vatican's diplomats in the region. He obtained his doctorate in 1971 from the Sorbonne with a thesis on Episcopacy and Papacy after Saint

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appointed him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Burundi and titular archbishop of Abbir Majus on 24 April 1982. He received his episcopal consecration from Cardinal

Agostino Casaroli Agostino Casaroli (24 November 1914 – 9 June 1998) was an Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See, who became Cardinal Secretary of State. He was an important figure behind the Vatican's efforts to deal with the religious persec ...

on Saturday

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in St. Peter's Basilica. Pope John Paul named him Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Morocco on 20 March 1986. The

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twice awarded him prizes: the Prix Véga et Lods de Wegmann in 1976 for ''Épiscopat et papauté chez Saint-Bernard de Clairvaux'' and the Cardinal Grente Prize in 1987 for ''Publication intégrale des œuvres spirituelles du Père Charles de Foucauld''. In 1989 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He retired in 1993 and returned to live in Saint-Lô. He devoted himself to the history of Saint-Lô and the

Manche Manche (, ; Norman language, Norman: ) is a coastal Departments of France, French ''département'' in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy on the English Channel, which is known as , literally "the sleeve", in French. Manche is bordered by ...

department; he led the Society of Archeology and History of the Manche, a society in which he had maintained a membership since 1937. He died in Saint-Lô on 26 February 2007.

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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Bernard Henri René Jacqueline
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jacqueline, Bernard Henri René 1918 births 2007 deaths People from Saint-Lô Officials of the Roman Curia Apostolic nuncios to Morocco Apostolic nuncios to Burundi Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy alumni French Roman Catholic titular archbishops